Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

1 sport management/ Arak University

2 Azad university

Abstract

The purpose of this research was to investigate the effect of job stress and job insecurity on the intention of job leaving the lifeguards with mediating role of the job satisfaction in the city of Arak. The research methodology was causal  and applied in purpose. The statistical population included all active lifeguards (N = 140) in Arak city. The sample size was 80 people from the active lifeguards of Arak. In this research, standard questionnaires including Khan et al. (1964) questionnaire for job stress, Nissi and Mahmoudian (2002) questionnaires for job security, Kaufman & Fisher (1979) questionnaire for job satisfaction and Seyshoor (1999) questionnaire for the intention to leave the job was used which after confimed validity by experts, reliability was obtained 0.80, 0.883, 0.872 and 0.717 respectively by Cronbach's alpha. To analyze the data, the partial least squares method and Smart-PlS software version 3 were used. Findings showed that job security has a positive and significant effect on job absence and job stress has a negative and significant effect on job satisfaction. Job security predicts 69% of intentioned leaving the job. Also job stress predicts 58% of job satisfaction. Job stress has a negative effect on the intention of the job leave and job satisfaction, but these were not significant and job satisfaction as a mediator variable has not been able to predict the intention to leave a job.

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